Why didn't DD reveal Voldemort's identity?

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 186953

> Magpie:
> The WW knowing he's human does not have anything to do with Dumbledore's investigations. Dumbledore concealed just about everything he knew about Voldemort, not just how much. And he didn't only conceal it from the public but from the people fighting to bring him down.

Carol responds:
Where do you find the idea that anyone thought that he wasn't human? As far as I can recall, everyone--both his own followers and the WW at large--viewed him as a Dark Wizard. No one suspects him of being, say, a super-intelligent Troll or some new kind of monster. Besides, he uses a wand, which is a bit of a hint that he's a Wizard.

They don't know what he's done to make himself look snakelike or (seemingly) impossible to kill (both Voldemort himself and DD are concealing what they know about the Horcruxes, DD for good reason because if LV knows that DD knows about the Horcruxes, he'll make them impossible to find). But they also know that he is or was fully human at one time. The WW isn't ancient Greece, where they might think he was the son of a demon or an evil god. They know there's no "race" of snake-faced men and women with a hatred of Muggles and Muggle-borns and a desire to rule the WW.

As I said before, even those who know that he was once Tom Riddle (including Lucius Malfoy, who was given charge of Tom Riddle's Muggle-bought diary, and Slughorn, who taught him Potions for seven years, and Ollivander, who sold him the yew-and-phoenix-feather wand) are afraid to speak his name. Knowing that he was a super-talented, charming, intelligent, and powerful young Wizard won't make them fear him any less. A self-made monster might even be *more* feared than a natural one. Again, even the people who knew him at age eleven are afraid to speak the name he's chosen for himself, and not one of them calls him Tom Riddle, perhaps because he *isn't* handsome, charming Tom Riddle any more. Knowing his birth name makes no difference in their view of him or their fear of him. It's what he was during VW1 and what he is during VW2 that matters to the entire WW (except Dumbledore, whose possible reasons for keeping Voldie's secrets until it's time to share them with Harry I've already discussed).

Carol, who supposes that we should agree to disagree on this one